Buck's Babble

November is here and now almost gone. I'm bored on a graveyard shift and decided to babble a few minutes and update family and friends on anything new, which isn't much. Samuel has finished his Cross Country season and it went great. He really enjoyed the season and it was his first season running the long distances of cross country. He handled it, literally, in stride. The season was marred by the unexpected death of one runner from their time while at an event. Chris Lopez will be in our hearts forever. At the awards event at the end of the season Samuel won the first annual Chris Lopez award. It was touching and brought those tears to my eyes. I hate crying in public but, man, I almost lost it a few times that night. Again, Sam's latest report card was a perfect 4.0 with all As. So proud of you Sam! Emily has been doing great as well. She did not do any sports this season but really helped out by doing a lot of mom and my chores around the house. These always...

So I'm reading this book written in the late 70s and I come across some reference to the 70s swine flu fiasco. WTF I say?! So I immediately google 1970s swine flu shots and boy do I get a surprise. I'll throw some interesting links out there towards the end. Now I already had decided I would not get vaccinated nor would my family. We never have and never will if I can help it. Now I really stand firm in that decision. I don't want to change anyone's mind but just open a few minds, as mine was after reading this stuff. Turns out in the 70s some soldier contracted a swine flu and a nation-wide scare began. Vaccinations were created and swiftly given out. More people died from the vaccinations than died from the flu! Not only that, many contracted Guillain-Barré syndrome which is a paralyzing disorder. In fact this is still a known, but rare, possible side affect of getting ANY flu shot. In the 70s there were almost 1100 CDC recorded occurrences of this syndrome. So what s...